Hi, brand new member , stumbled across this place while searching for info about transfats.
I can tell I’m gonna just love it around here.
Does it bug anybody else that so many toothbrushes are shaped all curvy these days, so you can’t put it down to put the cap back on the toothpaste without having it roll over and waste the toothpaste already on the brush?
an example of my pet peeve: dysfunctional design.
Right up there with “I’m going to try and do that”
You can either try AND succeed, or try AND fail, to do anthything else you must try TO do it.
Yeah and there’s no “I” in Jaguar, either.
B-u-u-t… topping my list currently is the neighbor with the annoying little loudmouth chihuahua, and when it does do a sneak bark attack at people right out on the sidewalk, its owner scolds it in the tone of voice one would use to console a crying child. I wanna strangle her, tell her “Don’t you get that the dog’s getting *rewarded *for barking when you talk to it like that?”
BUT she’s in a wheelchair and I just can’t muster up the meanness.
This is why you will pry my toothpaste flip-top cap from my cold, dead hand. I buy Aim because it’s cheap, too cheap for a flip-top cap, so I recycle an old cap from some long-emptied expensive tube.
My variant? Hand-written signs that use all caps except for the Ls, so they end up looking like capital Is.
I knew a dog owner like that. Except they had a 30 pound dog that ATTACKED everyone unprovoked and then she “consoled it”. Needless to say it was a terror.
The first time it did that with me around I grabbed its ass by the throat, slammed it to ground, and held it there till it pissed itself.
My peeve is when people add extra letters to a word to drag it out. Ok, I get it, you’re exaggerating the word but please use common sense. “Looooooove” is pronounced as it looks. “Loooooooovvvveeeeeeee” would be said as “luh-veeeeeeeee.” The E is silent, you twat. When you add more than one, it’s not silent any more. Cut it out.
I can’t stand drivers that do not stay in their own lanes , I don’t see what is so hard about doing this.
What bug me the most is when I am on the phone and I tell a person I am
hard of hearing and I can’t hear them . The person will say " I can hear you fine !"
WTF! I will say to the person “How does that help me !” This happen more than one time , I wish I had a dollar for each time this happen!
And I don’t know if this technically qualifies or not but I always get a little “ewwwed” when ever I see someone (usually a girl) smile and they have a huge gum line showing. The tooth-to-gum ratio is way out of wack. It’s little, insignificant and not the fault of the person themselves, I know. But it still bugs me.
They could be in the bar, imbibing, adding to the bars business.
If you are an idiot that smokes, and stand outside for half an hour smoking, you are not only hurting the bars business, you are depriving others of your bar seat so you can arrogantly stand outside puffing your stupid cancer stick.
If I pronounce the word with the emphasis on the first syllable, it comes out right but if I emphasise the second syllable, the I suddenly appears. hmm.
It bugs me when people spell the word “lightning” as “lightening.” And since they’re both legitimate words, it’s not something spell-check or autocorrect would catch.
I posted about that elsewhere. What is she imagining a “doggy dog” world is? What image does that put in her head that it aptly describes a highly pressurized and competitive environment?
Arrrrruuuuggh!! I forgot about this! I hate this like a 40-acre field of cilantro. I was looking for something at a hardware store once, and discovered “ANGlE JOINTS.” I kept wondering who the hell Angie was, and why she had a joint named after her (it was a plumbing joint). Dawned on me days later that it was an “ANGLE JOINT.” :smack:
When people pronounce a short e as a short a, e.g., “I’d naaver do that!”.
When people leave off the “ed” when using the past tense, e.g., “I have straighten my hair.” I get that the “ed” fades off in spoken English, but for God’s sake include it when writing!
People who don’t speed up when merging onto a highway. Traffic is going 70 miles an hour, and you’re floating down the entrance at 35? Do you see why that is a problem? Step on the gas already!
And the related problem on ramp / merge problem. I’m doing 70. You’re also doing 70. Right fucking beside me. Kinda aim in front of me and I’ll tap the brake to let you in. Kinda aim behind me and I’ll hit the gas to make a gap for you.
Work with me you moron.
Otherwise I’ll drive your stupid ass in the upcoming overpass pillar.
OK, speaking as someone who has gained enough strength to cause noise when I deadlift, that Planet Fitness lunk alarm thing is bullshit.
Get this, I’m a 36-year-old woman, 5’4", size 12, and I’m a librarian, for god’s sake. I have a desk-job; I wear cardigan sweaters and sensible shoes. I am not a “lunk” by any stretch of the imagination. But I’ve been going to the gym and lifting heavy weights on and off for a year now and can deadlift over 200 pounds.
When you deadlift heavy weights for muscle gain, you don’t set them down on the floor gently. You’re working at close to your maximum strength (whatever that may be), so they’re…heavy, not light enough for you to set them down like china. (If they are, you need to up your weights.) I do stiff-leg deadlifts and don’t drop the weights down in the air from a height after a lift, but even putting them back down on the ground causes a considerably loud “THUMP” because, you know, it’s 200 pounds. To think a gym would kick me out for making too much noise, i.e., being too strong – ME! I’m telling you, anyone can get as strong as me! I’m no superwoman – is ludicrous. Anybody who had been training for even an inconsiderable amount of time would hit that lunk alarm threshold in a snap.
Planet Fitness sounds like some sort of tall-poppy-syndrome/crabs-in-a-bucket nightmare.
E: More germane to the purpose of this thread, one little thing that bugs me is bars at the gym that are scored (so they’re not slippery), but scored so much that they feel like cheese graters on your hand. I’m trying to increase my grip strength by doing simple hangs from a chin-up bar, but the bar itself hurts me so much I have to drop it before my arms are tired. And then my poor hands are shredded and painful for the rest of the day.
